TV Review- Penny Dreadful (2014-16)

With its rampant poverty, criminality and abundance of human misery, the slums of 1891 Victorian London was hardly a desirable location for anyone to visit. And that’s before you encounter the real monsters. This is the world of Penny Dreadful, the macabre brainchild of Academy Award-winning screenwriter John Logan, which first aired on Showtime. It

Movie Review- Scream (2022)

Eleven years after the last installment was released, the self-referential slasher franchise returned with its latest outing, simply titled Scream in January and earlier on this week, saw its DVD release. Over two decades after Ghostface’s massacre, the chalk-faced killer once again returns to Woodsboro to enact horror-movie inspired slayings. Sam (Melissa Barrera) is drawn

First Look- Nope (2022)

In such a short period of time, Jordan Peele has established himself as a new master of horror, releasing films like the cerebral, racially charged Get Out (2017) and the doppelgänger home invasion psychological thriller Us (2019). Now, his newest and most mind-bending new film looms on the horizon, simply titled ‘Nope’. From what can

First Look- Hatching (2022)

The debut feature of Finnish director Hanna Bergholm, based on a script by Ilja Rautsi, makes its official release this April, having already premiered earlier this year at the Sundance film festival to high praise. If the enigmatic trailer is anything to be believed, it’ll surely establish her as a bold new talent in the

Movie Review- Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)

The long-running Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise returns with its newest installment, (rather unoriginally titled) Texas Chainsaw Massacre, directed by David Blue Garcia, along with its flagship character and horror icon, Leatherface. The film, which takes place fifty years after the carnage of the original, centres around a group of naive, enterprising influencers, Melody (Sarah Yarkin),

Movie Review- Willy’s Wonderland (2021)- Blood, Sex and Circuits

The ‘uncanny valley’, a term coined by Professor Masahiro Mori in 1970, refers to the phenomenon of encountering an entity, usually artificially created, that straddles the boundaries of humanity, and the subsequent unease it induces. The colorful animatronic antagonists of Willy’s Wonderland (2021), directed by Kevin Lewis, are already horrifying by principle alone- and that’s